Charles Giuliano
Bio:
Publisher & Editor. Charles was the director of exhibitions for the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University where he taught art history and the humanities. He taugh tModern Art and the Avant-garde for Metropolitan College of Boston University. After many years as a contributor, columnist and editor for a range of print publications from Art New England, Art News, the Boston Phoenix, the Boston Herald Traveler and Patriot Ledger, to mention a few, he went on line with Maverick Arts which evolved into a website.
Recent Articles:
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Kennedy Center Honorees Front Page
A Matter of Taste or Lack Thereof
By: - Aug 13th, 2025Kiss, Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, George Strait, and English actor Michael Crawford will receive the Kennedy Center Honors at a Donald Trump-hosted ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 8. He has hinted that the Kennedy Center should be renamed for him or at least to have co-billing.
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MASS MoCA Programming Front Page
Through December
By: - Aug 13th, 2025MASS MoCA announces new programming through December 2025, including the opening of exhibitions Jimena Sarno: Rhapsody and Zora J Murff: RACE/HUSTLE, concerts by Chuwi and Harold López-Nussa and plenty of opportunities to experience the museum for free including a celebration of Día de los Muertos, Open Studios, and an after-hours Family Night. FreshGrass | North Adams, the campus-wide festival of roots and bluegrass music, kicks it all off with the best in the genre.
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Three Women Draw: Gabrielle Barzaghi, Susan Erony, Ann Ledy Front Page
Gloucester's Jane Deering Gallery
By: - Aug 11th, 2025Steps from the Cape Ann Museum, currently closed for renovation, is the Jane Deering Gallery. Opening on September 6 is Three Women Draw: Gabrielle Barzaghi, Susan Erony, Ann Ledy. A commonality is the studio as a place for solace and creativity deflecting the ongoing barrage of bad news.
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Heavenly Earth Front Page
At Manship Artists Residency
By: - Aug 11th, 2025Curated by Manship Artists Sharon Bates and Donna Hassler, our biennial exhibition Heavenly Earth includes some 70 pieces installed throughout the Starfield landscape and inside the Manship Barn Studio. The thirteen juried artists have responded with a range of compelling works that reflect both the thematic prompt and the natural and cultural significance of this historic setting. Work by Laraine Cicchetti is also presented in her memory.
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The Dishwasher Dialogues: Museums Front Page
The ladies of Wichita
By: - Aug 10th, 2025Then on a Sunday afternoon, you’ll be queuing for the Louvre, and you’ll start chatting with a lady from Wichita, Kansas, and she’ll ask you all sorts of questions. How do you know so much about Paris? Are you a professor or something like that? And I’ll say no I’m a bartender and a painter.
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Dana C. Chandler, Jr. Artist and Activist at 84 Front Page
Protested MFA and Founded AAMARP at Northeastern University.
By: - Aug 09th, 2025Artist and activist Dana C. Chandler, Jr. ( (April 7, 1941 – June 9, 2025) was the foremost Boston African American artist of his generation. Implementing change he got things done. As Edmund Barry Gaither, director of the National Center for African American Artists and MFA adjunct curator put it "Dana shook the tree and we harvested the fruit."
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Barrington"s Mr. Finn Cabaret Front Page
Andrea McArdle and Julie Benko
By: - Aug 08th, 2025Barrington Stage Company announces two dazzling evenings of Broadway talent at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, headlined by two of the Great White Way’s brightest stars: Andrea McArdle and Julie Benko.
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Joan at Barrington Stage Front Page
The Queen of Comedy Has the Last Laugh
By: - Aug 07th, 2025Joan written by Daniel Goldstein is a compelling and well crafted play about one of the dominant comic geniuses of her generation. The complex story of Rivers is portrayed by four actors assuming multiple roles. As such it is an absorbing evening of drama. Where it falls short, ironically, is as comedy.
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The Knights at Clark Art Institute Front Page
Two Free Concerts
By: - Aug 05th, 2025Over Labor Day weekend, The Knights return to the Clark Art Institute to present two free concerts for music lovers of all ages.
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The Power of Non-Forcing: Front Page
Finding Wu Wei in a World That Pushes Back
By: - Aug 05th, 2025In a world that champions the hustle, the grind, and the relentless pursuit of goals, the ancient Daoist concept of Wu Wei can seem paradoxical, if not entirely counterintuitive. Often translated as “non-action” or “non-doing,” it’s easily mistaken for passivity or indolence.
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Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static Front Page
Harvard University Art Museums
By: - Aug 03rd, 2025In the 1960s I met Edna Andrade several times when she traveled from Philadelphia to bring new work to the East Hampton Gallery in New York. The gallery was know for Op Art which describes her work at the time. Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static presents a selection of drawings recently gifted to the Harvard Art Museums by the artist’s estate, this exhibition emphasizes the central role of drawing as well as interdisciplinary exploration in her art and in modernist movements of the 20th century.
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A Room of Her Own: British Women at Clark Art Institute Front Page
Epic Struggle of Emerging Artists Between the Wars
By: - Aug 03rd, 2025Celebrating twenty-five women artists working in Britain between 1875 and 1945, the Clark Art Institute presents A Room of Her Own: Women Artists in Britain, 1875–1945 featuring 87 paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts. The exhibition explores the spaces these women claimed as their own and which they used to further their artistic ambitions, including their rooms, homes, studios, art schools, clubs, and public exhibition venues.
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Dishwasher Dialogues: Switzerland Front Page
Christmas in Paris
By: - Aug 03rd, 2025Ever since my boarding school days in Vienna and going on school skiing trips, mountains mean snow and snow means cold. I was cold those four years in Vienna. To this day give me the Mediterranean heat.
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The Resurrection of Judy Rhines at Cape Ann Museum Front Page
An Installation by Gabrielle Barzaghi & Peter Littlefield
By: - Jul 31st, 2025A radio play, The Beginning of the End (of Judy Rhines) by Peter Littlefield, accompanies the installation. The play is a mystery set in the 1940s. Judy Rhines is a secretary, until one day, losing her job and just about everything else, she learns the ways of a witch
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Annie the Musical Front Page
At Sharon Playhouse
By: - Jul 30th, 2025Annie has a strong connection to Connecticut. It started life at Goodspeed in 1976, before heading to Broadway, where it not only won multiple Tony Awards but played until 1983. While the inspiration was the comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, the musical’s plot by Thomas Meehan, is completely original. Charles Strouse wrote the music with lyrics by Martin Charnin.
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Week Seven at Jacob's Pillow Front Page
Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane and Shamel Pitts
By: - Jul 29th, 2025Touch of RED by Shamel Pitts | TRIBE will get a Jacob’s Pillow premiere that has been five years in the making. This performance will be a homecoming. In the Ted Shawn Theatre, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will make their first appearance at the Pillow since 2012, running August 6 through 10. Now in their 43rd year, the company is performing two seminal works from their historic repertoire: D-Man in the Waters set to Felix Mendelssohn’s soaring Octet for Strings (1989) and Story/ (2013) performed to Death and the Maiden by Franz Schubert played live.
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Stephen Petronio at Jacob’s Pillow Front Page
The Last Dances
By: - Jul 28th, 2025When Stephen Petronio announced that he was disbanding his company of 40 years Pamela Tatge of Jacob's Pillow jumped in. Together they planned a program that best represented his work. He spoke directly and candidly to the audience which responded with love and support.
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Diswasher Dialogues, Day of the Dead Front Page
El Dia de Los Muertos
By: - Jul 27th, 2025This feast of celebrating the dead––and death, of course too––was a good jab into my coddled heart, and a solid fuck-you-and-the-nag-you’re-riding aimed at the grim reaper. After the clients finally left way past closing time, the entire staff, all rather worse for fatigue and drink, sat down for our own special Halloween dinner.
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Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap Front Page
World’s Longest Running Play at the Colonial
By: - Jul 27th, 2025Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap opened to mixed reviews in 1952, and other than a hiatus for Covid, is still running. It’s a London tourist trap and as much a site to see as Big Ben and the museums. Berkshire Theatre Group's sizzling production at the Colonial Theatre is a home run. This show is the most fun of the Berkshire season.
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Singin’ in the Rain Front Page
Playhouse on Park in West Hartford
By: - Jul 26th, 2025The Playhouse on Park version has a new premise. We don’t just dive into the plot. The production begins with an audience assembling for a screening of the classic movie. However, just moments in, a malfunction stops the screening.
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Sekou McMiller & Friends Front Page
Coming to Jacob's Pillow
By: - Jul 23rd, 2025Jacob’s Pillow will welcome the Afro Latin dance company Sekou McMiller & Friends, who brought audiences to their feet last year on the outdoor stage, for their Ted Shawn Theatre debut from July 30 through August 3.
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All Shook UP Front Page
At Goodspeed
By: - Jul 23rd, 2025The list of things All Shook Up does well is long, from the show itself to the outstanding Goodspeed production and the talented cast.
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Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist Front Page
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
By: - Jul 22nd, 2025Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist explores the pioneering artist’s lifelong pursuit of translating Modernism into an American art form and celebrates her largely unsung achievements in championing abstraction in the United States through painting and printmaking.explores the pioneering artist’s lifelong pursuit of translating Modernism into an American art form and celebrates her largely unsung achievements in championing abstraction in the United States through painting and printmaking.
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The Quiet Feast Front Page
Finding the Dao in Solitude
By: - Jul 22nd, 2025Laozi reminds us in the Tao Te Ching of the utility of emptiness: “We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.” A life cluttered with noise and perpetual engagement leaves no room for the spirit to reside
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Sarasota Ballet Company at Jacob’s Pillow Front Page
Works by Sir Frederick Ashton
By: - Jul 21st, 2025For its first appearance at Jacob's Pillow in a decade the Sarasota Ballet Company presented two works by Sir Frederick Ashton and a world premiere by Jessica Lang, Sir Frederick Ashton (born 1904, Guayaquil, Ecuador—died 1988, Sussex, England) was the principal choreographer and director of England’s Royal Ballet, the repertoire of which includes about 30 of his ballets.
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